"Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable."

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Source : Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

Marshall Ganz

#Belief Quotes #Probability Quotes

“I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.”
“It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.268
“So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?”
“It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.”
“I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other”
“When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.”
“The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.”
“Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places. (Summary of his photographic career)”

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